On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:01:11 +0000, Frank Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:39:24 +0000, Frank Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > Yesterday I tried to rebuild my kernel to use gensplash, I followed > > the very good howto at [1] and opted to compile gensplash into the > > kernel using genkernel. I am not using the initramfs image stuff. > > Everything appeared to work just fine I get all that lovely eye-candy. > > > > However when my system tried to start X & gnome it locked up. X did > > appear to start, the gnome splash screen appeared, but the icon for > > "starting metacity" never appeared. X locked up so badly that I > > couldn't drop back to the terminal via CTRL+ALT+F1, nor could I even > > kill it with CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE. I ended up having to ssh into the box > > to disable gnome and reboot the machine. > > > > I then edited my rc.conf so that I'd start a plain old X session. I > > rebooted, and everything worked just fine. I could even run gnome > > based applications (like evolution). So I'm starting to wonder if > > perhaps there is a conflict between metacity and gensplash? > > > > I still have that gensplash kernel available, so I can reproduce this > > at will, but I'm at a stand still. Can anyone offer any suggestions > > here - where should I start looking? Should I grab stack traces from > > X, metacity gnome-session or some other processes? > > I'd appreciate any ideas on how I should debug this from here. > > > > I should also mention that I'm running all this on a Dell d600 laptop, > > the kernel has been patched to use the radeonfb details of the patches > > that I applied are at [2]. > > > > any help suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated. > > thanks in advance, > > --Frank > > > > [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash > > [2] http://www.loria.fr/~thome/d600/ > > I just tested this using initramfs and a manually built kernel, but > the problem still persists. > The issue here is not metacity. I can launch X, metacity, nautilus, > gnome-panel, and everything works fine. The problem is when my machine > boots directly into gnome and launches gnome-session... I might try > re-emerging gnome-session. Again if anyone has any ideas I'd > appreciate it. > cheers, > ---Frank >
ok, I resolved this, for the record the problem was that I hadn't re-emerged alsa-driver since I migrated from 2.6.9 to 2.6.10. cheers, --Frank -- [email protected] mailing list
